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A wonderful article as usual. I had been unaware of the existence of the WTFPL, as well the nuances of the various other licenses, but I wholeheartedly agree with your expressed views. Copyright is a problem both because it inhibits freedom and progress ("standing on the shoulder of giants"), and because it's a petty and silly concept in an expanding, infinite universe where every possible idea has likely

already been expressed in every possible way, accidentally or otherwise, somewhere or another, an infinite amount of times.

The second ED quote is the first time I laughed at that website in ten years. I remember sending random Omegle users to nimp under the guise of a Justin Bieber fansite, which is the most 2010s edgy preteen thing I can think of. I hope God forgives all the childhoods I ruined. Except there is no god. And I can sin whenever I want.

koshka: Abject codswallop, that. Should you ever create anything marketable and suffer either plagiarism or commercial piracy, you might comprehend the necessity of copyright, which is intended to preserve attribution and reasonably remunerative conditions.

Corporate subversion of copyright is the problem, and that common inability to secern it from copyright as initially intended -- which is neither antinomic nor significantly constrictive of freedom or progress -- bespeaks the difference between a functional liberal praxis and the inanity of millennial libertarianism.

That poll was SO rigged. Miley Cyrus never did anything important.

Froge, alas, if only the GNAA were still around, then maybe a live Nimp.org would still be hosted somewhere. Robert, remember that we're on the Internets -- copyright doesn't apply here. :^) Also, she was Hannah Montana, you know...

You may as well rank Stalin inferior to Carly Rae Jepsen. Grow up.

Excellent animation. I liked the dancing lolwut Pears especially, and being able to move the Sun around.

All that DESU flooding unironically looks like an improvement over a lot of the regular threads on modern 4chan.

koshka: newfags there actually argue with baizuo rather than rationalize their necessity of suicide. Christ.

I enjoyed many applications of YT's annotations. Episodes of MST3K uploaded by Shout! were annotated with expository notes that explicated references throughout. This may read as an insufferable attempt to cater to you hopelessly, obliviously inscient millennials and zoomers, but those annotations were actually succinctly entertaining, and not terribly disctracting.

I didn't know mobile users were the reason this went away. Phone users really are a cancer that needs to be removed from the Web for good. Removing features to appease phone zombies is akin to abolishing stairs because wheelchair-bound people can't utilise them.

lolwut fears the phoneposter...

It is pretty sad that mobile phone use was predominantly behind the removal of annotations. My own personal bugbear involving their removal is that I can no longer play 'The Dark Room'.

Robert, I also enjoyed annotations, and very rarely ever turned them off. Koshka and Club Nintendo Archives, I know -- I will never understand the reasoning behind that decision. They could have at least left existing annotations intact to preserve all that history. Froge, "loathing" or "contempt" are more accurate words regarding my attitude towards mobile users...

koshka: any comparison of subhumans to the disabled constitutes cruelty toward the latter. Shame on you.